Ruthless Empire: A Dark Mafia Collection by Eden Seth & Scott Raven

Ruthless Empire: A Dark Mafia Collection by Eden Seth & Scott Raven

Author:Eden, Seth & Scott, Raven
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-10-01T00:00:00+00:00


9

Willow

If there was a God, he had flat out abandoned me. Why would he convince me that coming to Philadelphia was a better idea than sending flowers and my love? Why would he let me believe that I could survive a few extra days here? Catch up with some friends, spend time with Ricky, take a break from work. Certainly, that was doable? Alessandro could be avoided, and if he couldn’t be, he could absolutely be resisted if push came to shove. I was a strong and resilient person. Right?

Wrong.

I wasn’t meant to be in a room with Alessandro while he recalled good times and whispered that he loved me in my ear. I wasn’t meant to resist his touch, which may as well have been a branding iron for the way it burned across my skin and left traces of its presence in its wake. Alessandro pressed his lips to mine, and any strength or resilience that I had decided to take a spectator’s approach to my life. They left me the same way God did, to fend for myself in a battle-royale of Alessandro’s wooded cologne and breathless kisses. The sword and shield I’d prepared for the battle evaporated like smoke in my hands when he turned me to face him outright, pressing his body firmly against mine and keeping his palm settled firmly on my neck while his tongue licked out, knocking on my lips and asking my tongue out to play.

Why couldn’t I resist? Why couldn’t I pull away? Why was I lacing my fingers into his velvet curls and dragging him even closer to me, desperate and wanton, so close there was no space between us? Alessandro was doing to me what Alessandro had always done to me—pure, reckless destruction. Out-of-control destruction that fettered into him as he smoothed his hands over my backside and under my thighs to lift me from my feet. I kept a tight hold of him, begging that everything that existed outside of that moment leave us be. I didn’t want to think about anything other than Alessandro. I didn’t want to be anything else at that moment besides someone he wanted, someone who wanted him. My inhibitions took an empty seat next to my strength and resilience to enjoy the show.

Powerfully, he used one arm to keep me aloft while he used the other to knock my suitcase to the side, sending all of its contents spilling out onto the bedroom floor. As much as that was going to bother me later, at the moment, I couldn’t care less. Alessandro spun me around to guide me carefully down to the comforter on the bed and continued to hover above me, never letting his lips leave mine. My curious fingers started to pull at the buttons to his suit coat, unfolding them from one another, and pushing the article away. Alessandro’s broad shoulders had always been one of my favorite features of his physical form, and I reveled at the way they fought against the white button-up to be freed.



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